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16Sep2010

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Ace Attorney Investigations 2 Debut Trailer

Today at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom revealed the first trailer for the new Ace Attorney Investigations game. Fan-favorite Miles Edgeworth returns as the leading role, accompanied once more by his goofy sidekicks Gumshoe and Kay. Shelly de Killer from Justice for All and Gourd Lake from Ace Attorney also make an appearance. Check out the debut trailer.

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Staff Picks: 7 Favorite Xbox Live Arcade Games

Xbox Live Arcade is home to a lot of unique titles of all types of genres. The Spawn Kill crew fished for each of one of our favorite picks available on the marketplace that we'd recommend to our readers. As usual PopCap games sneak in and are some of our coveted addictions, but don't be surprised if a zombie or explosionary icon sneaks up on you either. There's a little something for everyone out there so check out our list of XBLA favorites and let us know what your favorite is!

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Staff Picks: Top 7 RPGs

If you do a Google image search for RPG, unfortunately most of the shots you'll find feature a certain deadly weapon. However, use that word around any gamer and they'll immediately think something completely different. Role-playing games. If you play games regularly, chances are good you've played at least one RPG at some point in your life. Many of us thoroughly enjoy the genre in all its facets, which made this week's Staff Picks even more difficult. Once again, the staff here at Spawn Kill got together to each pick just one of our most favorite RPGs. Again, no easy task. However, we all managed to settle on one title to represent some of our favorite moments in gaming. Check out our list, and feel free to list your picks in the comments. And, unlike us, you aren't limited to just one pick.

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Kill Kast 14: Gaming Merch and Our Fav Soundtracks

The Kill Kast is back again and we hope to start a new streak of consecutive podcasts. In Episode 14 Stephanie, Eric and Rebecca get together to talk about what they’ve been playing which includes Dragon Quest IX, StarCraft 2 and Mafia II. We go through some recent news such as Mass Effect hitting the PS3, the Windows Phone 7 and the Sony PSP phone. For our topic(s) this week we discuss last week’s Community Voice and what you all said along with our recent Staff Picks and why we love those soundtracks. We also talk about Dragon Age a whole lot, mainly why Origins is so awesome and why Dragon Age 2 has us worried. It happens. I think it's high time we just start a separate Dragon Age podcast...

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Kingdom Hearts: BBS Interview Summary with Director Nomura

We stepped into the Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep presentation and were surprised to be face to face with none other than Tetsuya Nomura who was sitting there with an entourage of translators. Both Stephanie and Dave had assumed that we were in for a demo of the game itself just like all of our previous appointments had been thus far. So when we sat down with Nomura, we flipped out our notebooks and prepared to absorb in any juicy information we could pry about the upcoming PSP Kingdom Hearts title, Birth by Sleep.

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Interview with Tomm Hulett on Konami’s Jetpacking Possum Mascot Revival

I know you know us at Spawn Kill. If there's any Xbox Live Arcade/PSN game we've been excited about lately, it's been Konami's revival of their jetpacking possum icon, Sparkster, in Rocket Knight. Never having played the original myself, discovering that Konami had an iconic furry mascot of their own during the 90's piqued my interest after reading Eric's hands-on from the Konami Gamer's Day event, and pushed us to pry an interview out of Tomm Hulett, the Associate Producer on Rocket Knight at Konami Digital Entertainment. Next up? Rocket Knight 2: Possums Gone Wild - Piloting Mechs. Read on to hear about what inspired Tomm to want to revive Konami's 90's mascot.

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Lost Planet 2 Swag Giveaway! [Ended]

Want to win a sweet Lost Planet 2 swag package right here at Spawn Kill? All you have to do is tell us your biggest kill of all time, in or out of a video game. As an example, one time I was shark hunting in the middle of the Pacific ocean when I killed a blue whale. I then swam its corpse to a local Japanese village and they had food and heat for nearly a decade. I was labeled a hero and to this day there stands a statue of me in their town center. Obviously, true story. Feel free to be as epic in the telling as you like. We'll pick five people at random or five people who know how to spin a yarn and give them a nice little package full of Capcom goodies, including a t-shirt, a water bottle, and Kill Big poster. Check them out below for visual details.

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Agree to Disagree 08: Silent Protagonists

Though we've certainly come quite a long way from the days of the arcade where a speaking character was a luxury, games today retain elements that can be traced back to the golden days of gaming. Yes, you still find characters who never (or rarely) speak. Yes, these characters do not speak so that you may live vicariously through them. You speak for them. And in some cases, you'll choose what "they're" saying, but is it really them speaking? And how much control do you really have over a set narrative when you have limited control over what they're "really" saying? Are they simply a vehicle for designers to skip over an entire step? (more...)

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Agree to Disagree 07: Morality and Choice

A simple choice can change your life forever. For instance, you may selfishly choose to drive drunk and end someone's life, or yours. You could easily choose to get a ride home and not risk wrecking or endangering someone's health. Of course, those are choices that can be made with dire outcomes. Gaming is slowly but surely introducing the same kinds of decisions. But are we ready? Are they being implemented correctly? And how do we feel about choosing "right" versus "wrong?" (more...)

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Halo: Reach Special Editions’ Content Revealed!

With the Halo: Reach beta hitting in less than two weeks, it's prime time for Bungie to let everyone in on what to expect for its upcoming retail release in the Fall. As with Halo 3, Halo: Reach will be offered in three different retail iterations: Standard, Limited and Legendary.

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Ace Attorney Investigations 2 Debut Trailer

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Staff Picks: 7 Favorite Xbox Live Arcade Games

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Staff Picks: Top 7 RPGs

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Kill Kast 14: Gaming Merch and Our Fav Soundtracks

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Kingdom Hearts: BBS Interview Summary with Director Nomura

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Interview with Tomm Hulett on Konami’s Jetpacking Possum Mascot Revival

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Lost Planet 2 Swag Giveaway! [Ended]

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Agree to Disagree 08: Silent Protagonists

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Agree to Disagree 07: Morality and Choice

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Halo: Reach Special Editions’ Content Revealed!